{"product_id":"inara-quartet-minutiae","title":"Ināra Quartet - Minutiae","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan\u003eMinutiae\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e is the first full-length release from Stockholm’s \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan\u003eInāra Quartet\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, made up of brothers \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan\u003eKasper\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cspan\u003e (guitar, banjo, mandolin) and \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan\u003eMauritz Agnas\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cspan\u003e (bass, cello), \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan\u003eJohan Graden\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cspan\u003e (piano, harmonium, synths) and \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan\u003eMischa Grind\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cspan\u003e (percussion). Drawing on wide performance and composition experience in free improvisation, jazz, and composed new music, the quartet have carved out a unique niche where radical approaches to rhythmic organisation and group interaction are wedded to immediately accessible, folkish melodic and harmonic material. Unfolding briskly across eight pop-song length tracks, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan\u003eMinutiae\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e places these folk fragments under a microscope, expanding them into intricate patterns of group interplay by turns austere and lushly psychedelic.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe quartet’s layering of independent rhythms, pulses, and tempi suggests a range of precedents, from \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan\u003eLigeti\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cspan\u003e’s ticking clock textures to the pulse music of \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan\u003eJohn McGuire\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, the repeating asynchronous cycles of \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe Necks\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, and the intricate irregular crosshatching of Banda music. Rhythm, harmony and melody shade into one another within each of the instrumental layers that overlap to form the music’s rippling surface. At points guitar, bass, percussion, and keyboards can seem each to occupy their own world, each player moving independently according to their own internal tactus, but attention to the details of group interplay reveals carefully planned collective movement. On ‘\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan\u003eKlapparen\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e’, strummed acoustic guitar chords and clinking percussion accelerate and decelerate in unison, washed over by floating synth lines. At other points, the quartet as a whole suddenly shift direction like a \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThis Heat\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cspan\u003e tape edit. Check the opener ‘\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan\u003eBox Pieces\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e’, where a brief percussion tag cues an unexpected cut from frenetic layering of percussive attacks undergirded by slow moving synth and bass foundations to a rumbling, locked-in dirge.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe eight pieces span a range of tones, from plaintive abstraction to surging minimalism. Touches of whimsy relieve any threat of over-seriousness: witness the wacky electric guitar glissandi that open ‘\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan\u003eTilting\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e’ or the lovely, almost \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan\u003ePascal Comelade\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cspan\u003e-esque fairground wobbles that begin the wayward journey of ‘\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan\u003eCadence: not even\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e,’ before it stumbles into a totally different zone of spacious \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan\u003ePaul Bley\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cspan\u003e balladry sprinkled with banjo plucks. Recorded across two days at Stockholm’s Atlantis studios, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan\u003eMinutiae\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e’s minutiae truly sparkle thanks to the careful mixing work of \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan\u003eGhosted\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cspan\u003e drummer extraordinaire \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan\u003eAndreas Werliin\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cspan\u003e. A wonderfully approachable document of the richness of the next generation of contemporary creative musicians from Sweden, Ināra Quartet’s debut also looks back to 70s touchstones like \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan\u003eArchimedes Badkar\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cspan\u003e in its joyful embrace of musical collectivity.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Black Truffle","offers":[{"title":"Vinyl LP","offer_id":60034730361177,"sku":"SDZ-54982","price":38.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0588\/3455\/0945\/files\/SRD_20261012_1510_143338_354_p_BLACKTRUFFLE149_035.jpg?v=1792492567","url":"https:\/\/spindizzyrecords.com\/products\/inara-quartet-minutiae","provider":"Spindizzy Dublin","version":"1.0","type":"link"}